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A recorded chat by security architect for Microsoft Azure, Charlie Kaufman was published earlier this week by Microsoft. In this chat session, Kaufman described the broad concepts that enable security for Microsoft Azure customers, and he conceded at one point that Microsoft Azure security is “secure enough for some applications and not secure enough for […]

Introduction By default the .NET framework comes with basic Ajax controls like UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, etc. If you want to make the existing asp.net applications to be ajaxified then the simple and efficient way would be to make use of the extender controls which form the AJAX control toolkit. This doesn’t come by default but you […]

DotNetNuke the largest Web content platform built on the .NET Framework boasts over 6 million downloads since it’s release in 2009 sa release the Enterprise Edition. It’s a fully opened to custom apps. Version 5.5 is an earnest attempt to move beyond small business and into the enterprise arena. The DotNetNuke Enterprise edition offers staging […]

The official launch of Windows Phone 7 is only a month or two away, and Microsoft is eager to demonstrate that its entry into the smartphone market already has momentum. As Exhibit A, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said on Monday that developers have downloaded the beta development tools that it debuted last month some 300,000 times. […]

Introduction Dundas data visualization provides third party chart controls for developers used for creating embedded chart based RDL reports with SQL server reporting service. Dundas also provides gauge, map and other visual controls for different Microsoft development platforms (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, SQL Reporting Services and SharePoint). Dundas charts for reporting services can be very easily […]

In a move aimed at helping IT professionals advance in their careers, Microsoft announced a new set of “Certification Packs” — technology exams that come with the ability to retake the tests if the person doesn’t pass the first time. The new set of exams provide discounts on dozens of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) technology specialist […]

What is the Microsoft Azure SDK? Many people might not be aware of the differences between Microsoft Azure Tools and the Microsoft Azure SDK. The Microsoft Azure SDK is simply a set of binaries and helpful utilities to help you use the Microsoft Azure SDK platform as a developer. The tools package, on the other […]

Introduction Policy Injection Block was introduced in Enterprise Library 3.0 and makes use of aspect oriented programming concepts to add, remove, and modify common cross cutting concerns in your ASP.NET applications such as logging, validation, caching, exception handling, authorization, etc, without the need of recompiling the application’s code. This article takes a quick tour of […]

If you had a chance to play some of the game titles available, on your Windows Phone 7, you’d have noticed that the Windows Phone 7 is a quite capable platform for games. This point is extremely important, because games in general- and the Windows Phone 7’s Xbox Live tie-in specifically – will have to […]

Back in May 2010 I wrote a three-part article series titled Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API, which showed how to build a simple store locator application using ASP.NET and the Google Maps API. The application consisted of two ASP.NET pages. In the first page, the user was prompted to enter […]

This article represents a follow-up of the last article, “Versionable Object’s Serialization using MFC – Part 1“. In that article I presented to you a way to solve incompatibility issues between different file versions of the same application, based on MFC serialization into a dialog base application. But, the dialog base applications are not the […]

Introduction I wrote my first BASIC code in 1978. I first got paid for writing a little code in 1987. This is a fact. In this business that means I have some perspective, some experience, and know a lot of things that aren’t that useful anymore. Just like everyone else in this business I have […]